Eco-Film Series

• Each week of the competition, an award-winning environmentally-themed film will be showing on campus.
• Come see the films to win bonus points for your dorm and be entered into a drawing for gift certificates to local restaurants.
• All screenings are held in White Lecture Hall (map) and are open to the public!

Tuesday, October 7th, 8 pm
The 11th Hour with Leonardo Dicaprio (1991)

The 11th Hour is a 2007 feature film documentary, created, produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, on the state of the natural environment.With contributions from over 50 of the world's most prominent thinkers and activists, including former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, physicist Stephen Hawking, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai, and journalist Paul Hawken, the film documents the grave problems facing the planet's life systems. Global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction, and depletion of the oceans' habitats are all addressed. The film's premise is that the future of humanity is in jeopardy.

The film offers hope and potential solutions to these problems by calling for restorative action by the reshaping and rethinking of global human activity through technology, social responsibility and conservation. Scientists and environmental advocates such as David Orr, David Suzuki, Paul Stamets, and Gloria Flora paint a portrait for a radically new and different future in which it is not humanity's intent to dominate the planet's life systems, but to mimic and coexist with them.




Thursday, October 16th, 8:00 pm
Planet Earth (1988)
Planet Earth is quite simply the greatest nature/wildlife series ever produced. This astonishing 11-part BBC series is brilliantly narrated by Sir David Attenborough and sensibly organized so that each 50-minute episode covers a specific geographical region and/or wildlife habitat, until the planet has been magnificently represented by the most astonishing sights and sounds you'll ever experience from the comforts of your home. Accompanied by majestic orchestral scores, every episode is packed with images so beautiful or so forcefully impressive that you'll be rendered speechless by the splendor of it all.
We'll be watching the final DVD in the series, in which a global array of experts is assembled to discuss issues of conservation, protection of delicate ecosystems, and the socio-economic benefits of understanding nature as a commodity that returns trillions of dollars in value at no cost to Earth's human population. As Attenborough concludes, "We can now destroy or we can cherish--the choice is ours."

 

Thursday, October 30th, 8:00 pm
Erin Brokovich (2004)

Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts) is an unemployed single mother of three children who, after losing a personal injury lawsuit against a doctor in a car accident she was in, asks her lawyer, Edward L. Masry (Albert Finney), if he can find her a job in compensation for the loss. Ed gives her work as a file clerk in his office, and she runs across some files on a pro bono case involving real-estate and medical records against PG&E.

Erin begins digging into the particulars of the case, convinced that the facts simply do not add up, and persuades Ed to allow her further research. After investigation, she discovers a systematic cover-up of the industrial poisoning (Hexavalent chromium) of the town of Hinkley's water supply that threatens the health of an entire community. She finds that PG&E is responsible for the extensive illnesses residents of Hinkley have been diagnosed with and fights to bring the company to justice.




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